They will probably mess up a Pike series too. No one remembers what Trek is about apparently.
For me, the original Star Trek series, and the franchise beyond that, is about an optimistic future, where the human race didn't have a nuclear war or an otherwise dystopian future, but all races and cultures progressed into a truly utopian near-perfect society, where everyone is educated and people of all races have a shared and prosperous society.
I think somewhere midway into Star Trek: The Next Generation, and definitely into Deep Space Nine, they diverted the franchise into a more dark future, and got away from what Star Trek is supposed to be all about. I think Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, around the time of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and it was about that time I think the franchise shifted in direction and lost its way.
